Sight Words Activities {Weekend Warriors}

Let's talk about sight words. There are so many ways to practice sight words. I thought it would be fun to quickly share a few of my favorites with you, in case you were looking for some new ideas. :)

I have a few "go to" activities for practicing sight words in my classroom. I love them, and so do my students!

One activity that I love is using a Power Point slide show to quickly practice these important words. I usually use this with my small group students.

I created a few different slide shows using the various Dolch word lists. Once I created all the slides, I timed them so they would change automatically every 2 seconds. Depending upon the needs of your students, you might program the transition time to be a bit slower. Once my group of students is confident in reading the words, we sometimes read them in different voices (whisper voices, mouse voices, monster voices, and so on).

I use the flash cards a few different ways. Sometimes, I use them one on one with the students. Sometimes, I have the students read them in pairs. In this case, they would sit elbow to elbow, knee to knee and take turns reading the word and accompanying sentence on each card.

Once they can confidently read the cards, I let them time each other. The partners take turns reading as many cards as they can in one minute. Sometimes I have them read just the sight word, sometimes I have them read the word and the sentence. It depends on the group, their needs, and their ability. They repeat this several times to see if they can improve their "score." They always love challenging themselves and competing against themselves in this way.

I love that the one minute challenge activity can be used with any set of sight words. You can grab this recording form here for FREE. I've included the version shown above, plus a version to use with cards that only have words printed on them. I hope you can use it!